[multi BOOT] problems after HD SATA

[teo]

Hallo,

I had
one HD IDE with W98
and
another HD IDE with WXP on a partition and another WXP on a second
partition

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I could boot well all the three operative systems
with this in ' boot.ini ' :

C:\="MS Windows 98"

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Gianni Microsoft Windows XP
Professional per NET" /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Piero Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

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Then I added a SATA HD
(FAT 32, 3 partitons, no file yet added)

but the boot is now bad:

the following are no more good:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
and
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS


If I remove the SATA HD
the boot returns good.

 

[Bill Blanton]

Do you still get the XP boot menu, and 98 boots, but the XP installs don't boot?
Or does it just black screen?

According to your graphic, the SATA drive is being enumerated after the
IDE boot drive and before the 2nd IDE drive. That would push the
XP OS installs from rdisk(1) to rdisk(2) as referenced by c:\boot.ini.

Try:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Gianni Microsoft Windows XP


BOOT.INI and ARC Path Naming Conventions and Usage
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/102873

A discussion about the Bootcfg command and its uses
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291980

Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314058

 

[Bill Blanton]

Good to hear it. Thanks for posting back.

great, it worked!



I had reularly menus, but when clicked the XP
I got a long messae on the black screen
and nothing loaded




yes,
rdisk(2)
worked

 

[teo]

great, it worked!

Do you still get the XP boot menu, and 98 boots, but the XP installs don't boot?
Or does it just black screen?

I had reularly menus, but when clicked the XP
I got a long messae on the black screen
and nothing loaded

According to your graphic, the SATA drive is being enumerated after the
IDE boot drive and before the 2nd IDE drive. That would push the
XP OS installs from rdisk(1) to rdisk(2) as referenced by c:\boot.ini.

Try:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Gianni Microsoft Windows XP

yes,
rdisk(2)
worked